Indian and Peasant Politics in Latin America: Amazonia

Professor Stephen Nugent , Goldsmiths

Outline

This course is concerned with some of the key issues in the emergence of new forms of Indian and peasant identity and politics in Brazilian Amazonia. Against a background of colonial history, ethnohistory and ethnographic studies, the course considers contemporary movements in light of new configurations of power. Detailed themes include cultural identity and memory of the past; the impact of development programmes and globalization; eco-politics; debates over citizenship and democracy; indigenism and re-readings of the past; ecological politics.